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Secrets in the Library: Protected Scholarship and Professional Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk

Injunctions to secrecy in the colophons of scholarly cuneiform tablets offer potential insights into the classification and protection of knowledge in Mesopotamia. However, most models of a body of “secret knowledge” defined by the so-called “Geheimwissen colophons” have found it difficult to account for a seemingly disparate corpus of protected texts. This study argues first for an expanded definition of intellectual protection, which leads to a larger corpus of protected texts. Through a case study of Late Babylonian colophons from Uruk, it is suggested that there is a strong correlation between texts related to the professional specialism of the tablet owner, and the occurrence of protective formulae in the colophon. This implies that it is fruitful to consider “secret knowledge” less as an abstracted corpus of esoteric texts and more as a mutable categorisation strongly linked to professional and individual intellectual identity

Missing non-Western voices on social justice for education : a postcolonial perspective on traditions of marginalized communities

This chapter reviews the theories and development of a number of non-Western philosophical and legal social justice traditions that have been marginalized in the literature, adopting primarily a postcolonial perspective on how they can contribute to education, transcending colonizer distortions of knowledge to present and draw implications from bodies of knowledge that have been removed from the dominating international literature. This approach is accompanied by a critique of globalization that has, according to many authors, created a hegemonic position for primarily Anglo-American systems in this respect including the view of “epistemicide,” imperialism, “symbolic violence,” and neocolonization, particularly in relation to the right to culture as a social justice principle. Various forms of colonization, including that under the current globalization period, produce cultural hierarchies of values and knowledge, or even expunge cultural and knowledge traditions. This chapter examines selected humanistic traditions of social justice that have existed for centuries, long pre-dating the modern period, focusing on those that have suffered an injustice in their suppression and distortion through a Bourdieuian “symbolic” violence applying not only to the knowledge that is suppressed, expunged, or lost through colonization and globalization and the cultural and intellectual capital they carry but also the identities, values, and traditional social institutions from which they are derived. The first section examines the conceptions and practices of social justice established in ancient Mesopotamia that provides the historical foundation to many later systems. The second presents the Confucian system of social justice as a foundation to the just society that has informed administration, education, and the principles of justice of a number of countries consisting of equitable distribution, equal opportunities, the rights of individuals and the principle of equity. The next section examines the Islamic social justice tradition consisting of distributive, retributive, and fairness and equity and the aim of piety to correct injustices, individually and collectively and establish equal rights for women and men in many spheres and the role of education in emphasizing the role of mind in its critical and reasoning capacities and reason in the formation of character, morality, and the human community with a strong emphasis on education and becoming learned. Finally, a representative selection of indigenous systems of social justice are examined where principles of individual rights and obligations to others and nature carried with them obligations in how others are treated and cared for due to stronger collective rather than individualistic values

John Gray. The Krt Text in the Literature of Ras-Shamra. A Social Myth of Ancient Canaan

Bottéro Jean. John Gray. The Krt Text in the Literature of Ras-Shamra. A Social Myth of Ancient Canaan. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 150, n°2, 1956. p. 246

L. Dillemann, Haute Mésopotamie orientale et pays adjacents. Contribution à la géographie historique de la région, du Ve siècle avant l'ère chrétienne au VIe siècle de cette ère (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique de l'Institut français d'archéologie de Beyrouth, tome LXXII), 1962

Bottéro Jean. L. Dillemann, Haute Mésopotamie orientale et pays adjacents. Contribution à la géographie historique de la région, du Ve siècle avant l'ère chrétienne au VIe siècle de cette ère (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique de l'Institut français d'archéologie de Beyrouth, tome LXXII), 1962. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 67, 1965, n°1-2. pp. 178-179

M. Çig, H. Kizilyay, A. Salonen, Istanbul Aakeoloji Müzelerinde Bulunan. Puzris-Dagan Metinleri, Kîsim I : No 1-725 (= Die Puzris-Dagan-Texte der Istanbuler Archäologischen Museen, Teil I : Nrr 1-725), 1954

Bottéro Jean. M. Çig, H. Kizilyay, A. Salonen, Istanbul Aakeoloji Müzelerinde Bulunan. Puzris-Dagan Metinleri, Kîsim I : No 1-725 (= Die Puzris-Dagan-Texte der Istanbuler Archäologischen Museen, Teil I : Nrr 1-725), 1954. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 39e année n°3,1959. pp. 269-270

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R. de Vaux. Les institutions de l'Ancien Testament, t. I

Bottéro Jean. R. de Vaux. Les institutions de l'Ancien Testament, t. I. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 157, n°1, 1960. pp. 103-104

Antiquités assyro-babyloniennes

Bottéro Jean. Antiquités assyro-babyloniennes. In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Annuaire 1958-1959. 1959. pp. 28-29